Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley

Well done to hard-working brave Galway City Council staff who protested at City Hall this week against the ill-thought-out decision to move offices.

Members of trade union Fórsa gathered outside their place of work on Monday, to highlight their opposition to plans to relocate the Council’s headquarters from College Road to Crown Square in Mervue.

Nearly three years on, it remains unclear why Galway City Councillors on the last Council accepted the recommendation of the then Chief Executive Brendan McGrath and voted to borrow €45.5 million to buy the building shell off developer JJ Rhatigan.

We know McGrath met with each councillor, some individually, in the week before the vote but we don’t know what was said, because according to responses to Freedom of Information requests to this newspaper, no........

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